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Why the next phase of direct lending will reward discipline over scale.

Aspiring hosts of the 2036 Olympic Games will have until the end of the month to declare their interest in staging the multi-sport event.

UK fintech Wise is set to reveal a partnership with small business lender Oaknorth as the group looks to make its infrastructure arm a driving force.

The Premier League has received a US-shaped broadcast bounce with the World Cup inspiring Stateside viewership of the English top flight.

Star stockpicker Edouard Carmignac has urged investors to stop buying into passive funds as rising interest rates signal the end of ‘easy money’.

Streaming customers are likely to face further price rises after Paramount and Warner Bros Discovery complete their $111bn (£82bn) merger on Tuesday, analysts have warned.

Asos shares have tumbled more than 10 per cent after customers were sent a message claiming hackers had “fully compromised” the online fashion retailer’s data systems and would leak information unless the company engaged with them.

Like a student nearing the end of their gap year, Tesco has careened across Europe, Asia, even the United States, and is now preparing to return home and settle down.

Instead of erecting yet another Highland whisky ’shed’, Paddy Fletcher and Ian Stirling hit the scene with their dramatic, vertical Port of Leith distillery in 2023.

One of Britain’s biggest housebuilders has urged John Healey to slash stamp duty on newly built homes, in a move which it says would hand the Treasury a £4.2bn windfall.

Digital services giant Informa has snapped up the world’s largest privately owned event and exhibition organiser in a multi-billion pound deal with private equity firm Blackstone.

O n 17 December 1903, one of the most significant stretches of time in human history was measured near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

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The Donkervoort P24 RS is simultaneously one of the fastest and slowest cars I have ever driven.

That labradors aren’t a sign of fascism feels self-explanatory, yet Labour blathers on, writes James Ford’s hand in today’s Notebook Are black labradors really a ‘far right’ fantasy?

British businesses are shelving spending on public relations and consultancy firms as they embrace the capabilities of PR tools, according to City AM’s latest Business Spend Pulse.

After years in which central-bank backstops encouraged Eurozone investors to look the other way, the bond market has finally started to notice, writes Helen Thomas Fifteen years after the Eurozone sovereign debt crisis, its old fault lines are beginning to

On the reasons to not vote Conservative, very few blame Kemi.

It was hoped SpaceX’s blockbuster June flotation would add rocket boosters to the global IPO market.

Kemi Badenoch has said a “Britannia shield” worth £10bn would fend off missile attacks from hostile countries as the party expanded its defence policy on Tuesday.

Shadow chancellor Andrew Griffith has urged young people to stay in Britain and support the Conservatives as he highlighted the Tory pitch to young people amid a row over the party’s commitment to keeping the triple lock pension.

TalkTalk was founded to take on BT, slash the price of broadband and shake up a market dominated by a handful of incumbents.

New blockbusters will be premiered for the first time ever in London later this month, when the London Film Festival returns to the capital.

The NHS may not be able to replace Palantir before a crunch deadline on its £330m data contract, raising the stakes for ministers as pressure mounts to cut ties with the US tech giant.

Wealthy Brits are in a state of “fear” ahead of the forthcoming Budget, according to a London bank chief, as economic turmoil and speculation of more punishing tax raids ramp up.

Crystal Palace’s owners have valued the club at £900m and hired the Raine Group to field interest in investment or a possible sale, multiple sources have told City AM.

Government plans to push ahead with jury-free trials for certain fraud and financial proceedings raise “serious concerns”, according to the Institute for Government (IFG) and lawyers across the City.

Jeremy Clarkson hit out at the Labour government over its decision in 2024 to impose higher inheritance taxes on farming land two days before Tory leader Kemi Badenoch is expected to call for a cut.

When banking lobbyists geared up for an offensive ahead of the 2025 Budget, a tax cut barely made the wishlist.

Sainsbury’s walked away from talks over a merger with smaller rival Morrisons earlier this year, shelving what would have been the biggest shake-up of the UK’s grocery market in decades.

The average five-year fixed mortgage rate has broken the six per cent mark for the first time in three years after a fresh raft of lenders hiked prices.

Sunderland have parted company with interim chief executive Tom Burwell in a shock move after just five months as the Black Cats’ top man.

We investigate the mystery of Nigel Farage’s wristwatch.

City developers have hailed the Mayor of London’s plans to water down the amount of bike rack space new offices need to provide, arguing that the shift to e-bikes makes these requirements redundant.

Central London has been hit by a major power cut that stretched across dozens of postcodes and left swathes of the City in darkness.

Britain has shed more than half its billionaire wealth in the past two years, fresh research has shown, reviving fears over the scale of the UK’s wealth exodus just days after it emerged that one of the country’s richest men has moved to Monaco.

The Aston Martin DBX has gained a new derivative, with the GT version focused squarely on enhanced comfort and refinement.

On Saturday, Wakefield Trinity won a Super League title for the first time since 1968, completing a fairytale return to glory following a takeover by local businessman Matt Ellis just three years ago.

Can you bottle that new car smell?

A senior OpenAI safety figure has become the latest AI insider to sound the alarm over the technology, quitting the ChatGPT maker over what he called its “broken” culture.

The UK’s dominant services sector has suffered two years of continuous job losses despite moderate growth against the backdrop of intense trading disruption and high borrowing costs, new data has indicated.

Virgin Media has hit out at BT’s rescue of Talktalk as a “stitch up”, warning the deal could further strengthen its rival’s grip on Britain’s broadband market.

Gary Neville is increasing the frequency of The Overlap’s football talk shows to daily in the latest move in his battle for eyeballs with fellow player-turned-media mogul Gary Lineker.

Former Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has issued John Healey a major warning over any increase to the level of taxes paid by UK banks ahead of the forthcoming Budget.

Jonathan Reynolds is reportedly weighing up whether to impose tariffs on Chinese EVs as the business secretary grapples with a surge in imports.

Lidl grew its profit and revenue last year after pulling in an additional 43m shopping trips, as the discount grocer doubled down on its loyalty price scheme.

Broadband giant BT has agreed to snap up embattled telecommunications firm Talktalk in a move that has prompted the government to weigh in.

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Across the world, grown men and women are dressing as medieval knights and peasants.

Every link in the pension chain – from trustees to consultants to employers – has a part to play, writes Lady Mayor Susan Langley For many UK savers, their pension pot will become their single largest asset, bigger than their home.